My son spent most of yesterday at school learning "about God".
He learnt about how God made the earth and the clouds and the air and the land and the animals and the snickers bars. And he also found out that Adam and Eve were the first people on the earth – and that's where we all came from.
In a way, it is probably easier for children to grasp that God made the world and people and plants rather than trying to explain evolution to them. I have told him in the past that we were apes a long time ago and about "The Big Bang" but he still asks questions like "so you were a monkey then?" or "Were we monkeys when we were little?". He also fails to grasp the Big Bang theory, but asks the right questions such as "what was there before?" or "where did the bang come from?".
How can you explain something like the Big Bang theory to children?
Fucked if I know!
May 31, 2006 at 9:59 am
this may help
http://www.wimp.com/bigbang/
June 18, 2006 at 6:49 am
The question isn’t how you can explain the Big Bang theory to children, but how you can explain it to adults.
I still don’t get it…and neither does anybody else for that matter. There are too many problems with big-bang cosmologies as they are currently presented, which is why Stephen Hawking still has a damn job.
Reminds me of a philosopher who said “If you cannot explain a concept to a child, then you do not understand it sufficiently”
And Bravo to your son for asking the right questions.
Atheism is a concept that requires an adult mind to grasp.
Only a truly cynical mind could ever say that there is no God, and cynical minds come out of shitty life experiences.
But, if you could explain the Big Bang to me, I would be happy to hear it. My lecturers know me to act like a child on many, many occasions.
Oh, and nice site.
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